New oversight rules that would make it easier to crack down on religious and other private schools are expected to be approved by state education officials on Tuesday. The New York State Board of ...

It is a shanda that it took eight years, under two separate mayors, for the New York City Department of Education to conclude an investigation into a formal complaint that some ultra-Orthodox Jewish ...

New York State education law quite correctly requires that private schools, including religious ones, offer instruction in core subjects that is substantially equivalent to what public schools provide ...

A group of religious schools in the city, including a large number of yeshivas, are pushing back against new oversight rules they feel will infringe upon their rights to provide children with an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Sept. 11 New York Times expose titled “Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush with Public Money” prompted the New York ...

(New York Jewish Week) — The New York City Department of Education has found that 18 yeshivas are falling short of secular education standards, a landmark ruling in the ongoing fight over government ...

The dust is still settling from the state Board of Regents’ approval of new regulations that might help deliver the basic education in math, English, science and social studies to tens of thousands of ...

Amid the fevered last hours of New York state budget negotiations on Friday, with lawmakers scrambling to beat the April 1 deadline, a single, seemingly esoteric issue threatened to derail it all: ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eighteen private Jewish schools run by New York City’s politically powerful Hasidic community deprived thousands of students the required secular education in English, math, science ...

If there are gaps in education, government must do its part to ensure those places of learning have the resources necessary for students to be successful. Over the last few months yeshivas have come ...

It’s passing strange, at least to us, that the most important development in yeshiva education all year hasn’t been fronted, if it has been covered at all, by the New York Times. Since September, the ...